ROCKFORD — Sooner or later the turnover dam is going to break against Auburn.

Even Boylan knew that.

“We knew they were going to make like a 12-0 run here and there,” Boylan’s Brock Stull said. “We were just trying to make that 12-point run more like a six-point run.”

Auburn turned a deficit into a lead and then a close game into a rout with two big turnover-driven runs to beat the Titans 73-56 in the Class 4A Boylan Regional title game Friday.

Boylan (20-8) led by as many as six points when it made only two turnovers in the first 7:50. But No. 10 state-ranked Auburn’s relentless pressure then forced 10 turnovers in the next five minutes. That started a 15-3 run that put Auburn ahead for good.

“That is our game,” Auburn coach Bryan Ott said. “It is what we’re trying for. We won a bunch of games this season without having that consistently. It was driving me crazy as a coach. The fact that when it counts the most we’ve been able to put it together and play the way we want to play means everything.”

Auburn (26-5) forced 27 turnovers in beating Boylan by 30 points for the NIC-10 title last week and 22 Friday. Six of those turnovers came in a game-deciding 13-0 run midway through the fourth quarter that turned a 52-46 game into a 19-point lead.

“When Coach says it is time to pressure the ball, we have to get stops and score,” Nylek Cobb (10 points) said.

Stull (26 points) caused Auburn problems with relentless drives to the basket that also drew five of the seven fouls on Laytwan Porter (17 points) and Antoine Pittman (10). The Titans also scored 12 second-chance points by rebounding missed shots on drives, but in the second half many of those driving shots refused to fall.

“I was getting to the basket at will,” said Stull, who shared a long hug with Auburn’s Ott in the handshake line, “but I just didn’t finish enough.”

Auburn finished, mostly with defense and steals, which led to a flurry of fastbreaks.

“This shows what playing together will get you,” guard Phil Trammell said. “It will get you championships.”

Auburn drubbed their archrivals on the road in front of a sellout crowd, but cared only about moving on to face Huntley (21-7) Tuesday at the Elgin Sectional.